A thousand miles an hour.

Global Running Day!

Formerly National Running Day!

Yes, it is, uhm ... the first, uh, Wednesday in June (right?) and everyone must run!

Except you, I know you're not a runner, that's cool, you don't have to run.

Warm pre-dawn run, feels good. Great way to start the day.

The badge at right looks like a condom wrapper, what is up with that.

Distance: 3 miles
Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 59°
Climate: warm!
Weight: 164.5 lbs.
Mood: good

Would very much prefer to keep my weight below 165. That's the goal, for the rest of my life.

It doesn't have to be Christmastime for the treats to appear. My brother is in town, came over for dinner last night and brought cannoli from Presti's. Because I had not, for example, dipped into the emergency ice cream supply at work yesterday afternoon (though I could hear it in there, screaming) I felt entirely justified in my indulgence. You wait for the good stuff to come to you.

Loser Playlist
Watch The Tapes (153 bpm) - LCD Soundsystem
Song For The Man - The Beastie Boys
Run, Run, Run - Velvet Underground
Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors - Radiohead
Ripcord - Radiohead
Super Bon Bon - Soul Coughing
Dry The Rain - The Beta Band

If I should falter would you open your arms out to me?

Artifacts.

Nineteen runs in May, another record. But then the temperature dipped - again - and so did my spirits. The wind, the rain, all the rain, but even worse, the cold. A total drag. Add to that my late nights taken with technical and dress rehearsals for Timon and there has been little time or motivation.

But today is National Running Day. So run we must.

Temperature: 54°
Distance: 3.37 miles
Avg Pace: 7.59
Climate: nice and cool

Very weak this morning. When training begins, I must take care to retire early - always very difficult during the summer. There was a beautiful, full moon just over the housetops. Sorry you missed that.

Weight: 156.5 lbs.
From goal: -3.5

What's On Daddy's iPhone?
Respect - Erasure 

I could run ...

For the past three years, I was reminded of National Running Day maybe the day before it happens, and then spend most of the day itself worrying whether or not I will get that symbolic run in. This time I set my alarm.

My daughter graduates from fifth grade this morning. The distance from 2009 to now has been vast, all the moments, all the achievements, all the injuries and disappointments. All the great, personal success. My wife is a mess about it. I take longer to process this stuff.

Yesterday the education department came to our house to close the book on a great year of work. That is something I can more easily wrap my head around.

GLT Actor-Teachers 2013-14

Temperature: 62°
Distance: 3.25 miles

Guns & Horses Playlist
New In Town - Little Boots
Youth - Daughter
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You - Black Kids
Houdini - Foster the People
Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
Giving Up The Gun - Vampire Weekend
I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris
Ready For The Weekend - Calvin Harris

Back where you started.

Today is National Running Day!

Events did not conspire to run with a partner to celebrate Nat'l Running Day, but I did take the boy to get a new (used) baseball mitt, and we threw a ball back and forth for a half-hour before his practice and I say that counts.

Tomorrow brings to an end her fourth grade year, his second. Such important milestones. They're both about a foot taller, each. Her final soccer game for the season was this evening, those girls worked all year, since the fall, to work as a team and I have been so impressed with their progress.

It is a shame the team they played tonight are those awful girls who trip everybody.

It's not like they aren't moving immediately from days packed with school from days packed with activity camps -- theater camp, sports camp, music camp, art camp, invention camp, weeks away with the out-laws camp -- but at least there's no homework, and that general summer sense that whatever happens, it's, well ... whatever.

Temperature: 70°

Climate: cool
Distance: 3.25 miles

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Tears of a Clown Playlist

Peaches - The Stranglers

Sole Salvation - The Beat

Rockaway Beach - The Ramones

Is That Love (161 bpm)  - Squeeze

Do It Again - The Kinks

Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees

Expresso Love (Live) - Dire Straits

Turning Japanese (179 bpm) - The Vapors

Not to try to push our bodies any faster.

I love the neighbors' kids.

Distance: 5.15 miles
Duration 41 minutes
Pace: 7.8 min/mile
Temperature: 81º
Weather: hot! humid!
Weight: 172 lbs.
How many have you killed today, National Running Day?

My Lord, that was HORRIBLE. No one to blame but myself, I can handle heat. I can handle humidity. What I cannot handle is two servings of pesto pasta inside my fat belly before all the heat, humidity and direct sunlight.

For the first three miles, it was just like carrying a baby in my belly. Okay, I know, not just like that. But you know. Like that.

My head began to swell. I desperately wanted something to drink, in spite of having had two glasses of water before heading out. But there is nothing on this five mile route for me. No water fountains, nothing.

Then ... the burps. I need not continue.

AND YET. The final mile, THOUGH it was into the sun, THOUGH it includes the ups and downs of a half-dozen curbs and final, mild incline, finally, at long last, I hit it.

It took five miles. But it was worth it. Thank you, National Running Day.

Now I must vomit and shower.

1982 Playlist
Desperate But Not Serious - Adam Ant
Let's Pretend We're Married - Prince
Situation - Yazoo
The Chauffeur - Duran Duran
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Hungry Like The Wolf (Night Version) - Duran Duran
It's Nearly Africa - XTC
The Hanging Garden - The Cure